Sunday, October 31, 2004

BBC Scotland Interview

In a cramped studio in Newcastle with Sally Young of the Yes Campaign we did BBC Scotland Sunday Breakfast programme. It appears that the sting has now gone out of any debate as the overwhelming No responses start coming in from vox pops around the region. In Berwick they struggled to find a 'yes.' In other rural areas they also struggled. There is an air of resignation in the Yes Campaign that the battle is well and truly lost and it will be a relief to get to 5th November.

Blow after blow can be landed on the Yes Campaign now, and there is little or no resistance. The high profile figures have melted into the background and the preparations are being made for damage limitation to the political fall-out.

However, momentum must be maintained by the No Campaigns as certain sectors of the Yes Campaign resort to dirty tactics. Tom Brennan yesterday attempted to link the BNP with the No Campaign, but his agenda most certainly backfired. In the Mail on Sunday today, columnist Harry Blackwood slates the Yes Campaign's tactics of anybody wishing to vote no as a Tory.

The Yes Campaign next week will be desperately attempting to rally the Labour Party faithful, but the uphill task they have is an impossible one.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They'd better get their skates on. With the post as it is, "yes" votes sent in now may not even get there in time to be counted. So they'll have to drive round, stand over the party faithful (if any) and bully them into putting their crosses in the right box, and then take them all in by hand.

When I remember that until a few years ago we never thought to question the integrity of our electoral processes - it was countries like Paraguay, where you could assume that the elections would be rigged - I'm disgusted by what this government and their poodles at the Electoral Commission have done to us. Any chance of a few protest resignations? No way.

Anonymous said...

How will New Labour be able to win votes in southern England after they endorsed a campaign of Rather Arrogant Toff Southerners? All this will come back and bite them on the bum. The yes campaign are guilty of
abuse and the denigration of our fellow country men.
They have a gall dragging the bnp in to anything.

Anonymous said...

Who is Brennan? Another Labour leftie pretending he is non-party political perhaps! However, if the BNP voters in the North East (over 50,000 in June) follow the Party line and vote No, in a close race with only half a million ballots returned at the time of writing, that could make all the difference. Thanks, Mr Brennan, whoever you are!

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